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...not to be confused with ad nauseum; which means repeatedly until it becomes annoying

I heard ad nauseous the other day,

recently heard adverbatim (which I took to mean verbatim) who knows if they meant verbatim or ad nauseum ?

Maybe "ad verbatim" means restating a quote repeatedly until you actually manage to quote it correctly? Or rephrasing something so many times that you end up coming back the exact same wording you used earlier?

My grammar pet peeve is the word "nauseous". The relationship of the words nauseous and nauseated is analogous to the words boring and bored. When a person says "I feel nauseous", he or she is really saying "I feel I have a quality that makes others sick to their stomachs." Instead the speaker should say "I feel nauseated," which means that he or she is feeling sick to the stomach.

Nauseous also means affected by nausea, though, so I don't see why it is incorrect. Could you please explain?

Actually, no, but the common usage of the word has become so commonplace that most of us who shudder at the use of the word have given up on trying to correct it. If you look at the words boring and bored, "boring" is the cause and "bored" is the effect. This is a perfect analogy to nauseous and nauseated. Nauseous is the cause and nauseated is the effect.

now I always think of blaring as in sound and blazing as in sight, but she used blaring several times so I don't think she was confused with the two words, she believes blaring is the correct usage. I wonder if she was thinking of glaring?

I have also heard blazing used in describing a too loud radio. Are these terms interchangeable in today's language?

Something I saw on another forum. Context suggests that the person meant "prima donna", but what they wrote was "pre-madonna."

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...not to be confused with ad nauseum; which means repeatedly until it becomes annoying

I heard ad nauseous the other day,

recently heard adverbatim (which I took to mean verbatim) who knows if they meant verbatim or ad nauseum ?

Could I be a really obnoxious hyper-correcting nitpicker and general pain? Correct spelling of the "ad n." expression, is actually "ad nauseam" (penultimate letter a, not u): the originally Latin word "nausea", is a Latin feminine noun -- so in the accusative case, following the preposition "ad" (meaning here, "to the point of"), the word becomes "nauseam". If the word beginning with "n" had been a neuter noun, "ad nauseum" would be right.(Captain Know-It-All signs off, to everyone's relief )

now I always think of blaring as in sound and blazing as in sight, but she used blaring several times so I don't think she was confused with the two words, she believes blaring is the correct usage. I wonder if she was thinking of glaring?

I have also heard blazing used in describing a too loud radio. Are these terms interchangeable in today's language?

I have a friend who sometimes tries his hand at "literary" writing about our shared hobby, railways. He consistently uses "blazing", to describe the sound of locomotive whistles or horns, enthusiastically and prolongedly blown. I've never ventured to ask him whether he really means "blaring", or...?

I had thought almost lifelong, the same as you, " blaring: sound, blazing: sight"; but what with our various instances as above, I'm beginning to wonder...

I hear it, or the substitute 'th' here in Maryland, and on professionally recorded music. I believe that singers and other people who are recorded are taught that 's' comes across the microphone as a very sharp hiss, so they soften it to 'sh' or 'th'.

Which brings me to something that has driven me bonkers for a long, long time: singers using deliberate mispronunciations and fake accents. Why? I don't get it and it's annoying and distracting. Two really big offenders: - the word "baby" being pronounced bay-bay, and - the word "want" being pronounced like "won't," apparently in an attempt to mimic a southern US accent. The Rolling Stones sing You Can't Always Get What You Won't, for example.

It's just so fake and affected.

ETA: Awwww, nuts. I though this was the Little Things that Drive You Up the Wall thread. My complaint isn't really grammar-related. (Still drives me batty, though.)

I cannot sing a Beatles song without a fake Liverpudlian accent. I've tried, but I just can't. It's a physical impossibility.

I'm really goofy, because I end up sounding like Elvis when I sing along to the Beatles.

I'm really goofy, because I end up sounding like Elvis when I sing along to the Beatles.

Nothing at all to do with grammar quirks; but, cabbagegirl28, I see that we've lately had adjacent posts. When I signed up with the forum, I'd not yet become aware that there was a poster called "cabbagegirl". If I'd realised, I'd have chosen another forum name -- had no intention of stealing your "trademark" !

"These chips are so addicting!" No. Just no. Using this makes people sound less intelligent.

"These chips are so addictive!" Or "these chips are addicting me to them".

It's my biggest grammar pet peeve and it just makes me twitch every time. It drives me crazy whenever I see this, or any other grammar mistake in a business setting. I don't care if it's "only Facebook", your company is still putting itself out there with it's offer of a "beet and feeld green salad", or that they will DEFIANTLY let their customers know. That always makes me giggle.

"These chips are so addicting!" No. Just no. Using this makes people sound less intelligent.

"These chips are so addictive!" Or "these chips are addicting me to them".

It's my biggest grammar pet peeve and it just makes me twitch every time. It drives me crazy whenever I see this, or any other grammar mistake in a business setting. I don't care if it's "only Facebook", your company is still putting itself out there with it's offer of a "beet and feeld green salad", or that they will DEFIANTLY let their customers know. That always makes me giggle.